The race to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader and prime minister will officially kick off on Tuesday
He said there could be more ballots next week, probably on Monday, if the numbers are not whittled down fast enough.his resignation last weekAccording to Sky News' tally, only Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt and Tom Tugendhat have reached the 20 nominations threshold and only Mr Sunak has reached the more than 30 needed to get through to the first round of voting.
In 2019, an MP wishing to stand only needed the support of eight other Conservative MPs to get to the first round. After the 1922 executive held its own election on Monday afternoon, with chairman Sir Graham re-elected, they voted on the new leadership race's timetable and rules.Hustings will be hosted across all parts of the UKBy increasing the number of MPs needed to nominate a possible candidate, the length of the whole process should be shorter.
In 2019 there were initially 10 candidates in the first ballot and six rounds of balloting were required before the final two candidates were known. After the field is whittled down to two candidates they will face a ballot of party members based on one member one vote and the candidate who receives the most votes wins.
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